Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I again refer the minister to Prime Minister Gillard’s promise to ‘not allow our country to be held to ransom by a few people with extreme views’ and also to the views of Fiona Byrne who, as Greens Mayor of Marrickville, has signed up to a ban on commercial, cultural and sporting contacts with Israel and who, as the Greens candidate for Marrickville in the upcoming state election, has advocated a New South Wales trade boycott and sanctions against Israel. Does the minister agree that Ms Byrne’s views on Israel are yet another example of extreme Greens views?